Orientation of the Oppressed Each story can contain many clues and insights into the information of the period in which it is written. To find information we need to look beyond the text and the words we read closely. There are people in a society who investigate every piece of literature in this way. Those select few called Marxists seek why our lower classes are so oppressed compared to the middle and upper class, why the lower classes are being dragged towards these non-core development jobs and many similar questions. “Orientation” by Daniel Orozco adds symbolic value to the meaning of Marxism and the information that can be derived from within the story. In this tale, the lower working class characters are involved in a business where every aspect is outside the rules. Some of these otherworldly norms are the ways they can potentially be let go. For example, as the new employee goes through orientation, his colleague states, “No personal phone calls allowed. However, we do allow for emergencies. If you need to make an emergency phone call, ask your supervisor first” (33). The colleague goes on to state, “If you make an emergency phone call without asking, you could be let go” (33). Now, under any circumstance and in any job today, there would be no reason why an employee would have to go through such a process to receive an urgent phone call. Later in this orientation the colleague bluntly says, “Feel free to ask questions. Ask too many questions and you might get let go” (33). These workers will not be given the right to ask unlimited questions even if they revolve around their professional work. This limitation is simply unbearable in my mind because I would feel trapped between doing the task incorrectly or getting fired for asking what is the correct way to do it. Finally the new employee